After a coaching search lasting just over a week, Georgia Tech is set to hire second-year Temple head coach Geoff Collins to succeed Paul Johnson on the Flats.
A native of Conyers, GA, Collins was a graduate assistant at Tech from 1999 through 2001 and recruiting coordinator in 2006, helping Tech bring in one of the most talent-laden classes in school history.
After departing Tech, he did impressive work as the defensive coordinator at FIU (2010), Mississippi State (2011-2014), and Florida (2015-2016) before landing at Temple. Since taking over the reigns of Mississippi State’s defense in 2011, he has never produced a defense that has finished outside the top 50 in the S&P defensive rankings and was the architect behind the fierce 2014 MSU defense that Tech faced in the Orange Bowl.